Samsung’s Injong Rhee moves to Google

A previous senior Samsung Electronic devices executive is calling an American tech business his brand-new company.

Inning Accordance With Injong Rhee’s LinkedIn profile, he is now an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Google, “dealing with transforming IoT.”

Rhee was previously the CTO of Samsung Electronic devices and has actually led significant tasks like KNOX security, Samsung Pay and, most just recently, the Bixby AI engine. He signed up with the chaebol in 2011 and left his task in late December.

In a response piece, previous Samsung Mobile United States press relations lead Philip Berne composed on Medium that Rhee was a driving force for Bixby, establishing a lot of its functions that Pocketnow has actually evaluated to be useful to the customer. Other choices, like the ones to consist of instantaneous access to Bixby through a hardware secret, were slammed by the media and by Berne himself.

He questions if “Samsung can keep this aspiration, as the chief designer and cheerleader for not quiting has himself carried on to something much better.”